VISIT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE 87 



mtisfactory, came in so unsatisfactory a way, and were 

 i bearing that aomething waa at work 



Mr 1'. M Jiorg, waa 



dead. Herat) uds imagined he was to succeed 



vacant post at Row, 1 for George HI. waa known 



us patronage of astronomy long before he heard 



lorschel. In an observatory at Richmond, built 



i the superintendence of Bevift, 140 feet long and 



\ o storeys, were several grand instruments made 



sson of London.* 



Laden -with %. rything necessary for viewing 

 lo stars," Henchel, accompanied by h 

 Villiam Watson, left home on May 8. No 1 

 reached the anxious household at Bath fur a f 



ist Caroline and Alexander learned that " he had 



been introduced to the King and Queen, and had 



iasion to come to the concerts at Buckingham 



House, where the King conversed with him about 



astronomy." He was also so favoured that " the King 



gave him leave to come to hear the Griesbachs play at 



the private concert which he has every evening." 



r Alexander was known to the King, 



un<l was in<jiim-; n t he same breath apparently 



as he inquired at a great speculum." Had Miss 



Burney been telling the story, she would probably 



MLid thai What? what? what?" looked upon t ho 



two as creatures of the same kind But his pupils 



and Mr. Palmer, the manager of the theatre at Bath, 



must be told that he could not return till the King 



had seen the planets with the seven-foot reflector, and 



i him permission to leave. That telescope had 



1 Jfow**, p. 821. ' UUoda, JV*fc, i. xx. 



